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13.115.12 execvpe ¶

Documentation:
man execvpe

Gnulib module: execvpe

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is missing on many non-glibc platforms: glibc 2.10, macOS 14, FreeBSD 14.0, NetBSD 7.1, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, Solaris 11.3, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, Android 4.4.
• This function is not declared on some platforms: AIX 7.1.
• On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does not pass command-line arguments correctly if they contain space, tab, backslash, or double-quote characters.
• On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function spawns an asynchronous child process and then exits the current process immediately. As a consequence, the parent of the current process 1. may incorrectly proceed as if its child had exited, and 2. will never see the child’s exit status.
• On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), the return type of this function is intptr_t, not int.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: